New Singlegator Site Rolls Up Gadget Blogs
Lately, I am diggin' single page aggregators that people build around a topic using feeds. Don't get me wrong, RSS by itself is awesome. But "singlegators" (cmon, we need a cool word, right?) make it much more efficient for me to stay abreast of many blogs that focus on one theme.
I'm not alone. Brian Benzinger has a nice round up of a bunch of these sites. These include diggview and many others I hadn't heard of. Clearly this is going to be a space to watch. Someone should create a singlegator of PR and marketing news.
Speaking of singlegators, one of my new faves, Original Signal (which tracks Web 2.0) just launched Transmitting Gadgets. The new site rolls up the popular gadget blogs.
Tags: originalsignal, gadgets, singlegators
I like these also, indeed, I have been experimenting with a non-Ajaxy page of small business weblog headlines on SmallBusiness.com (there's a link to it off the front page, but I couldn't display the URL here because your blog thinks I'm a spammer when I do)...However, I only display headlines. There's something a bit sploggy to me about a page that aggregates the full headline and feed from a blog. In some respects, it's like an RSS newsreader...however if it is a page that a publisher has created and chosen various RSS feeds (headlines AND fulll posts) to be viewed w/out ever leaving the page -- and the the aggregator-publisher is monetizing that page via advertising, it quacks like a splog to me. However, I can be easily convinced by you otherwise, Steve.
Posted by: Rex Hammock | Thursday, August 31, 2006 at 06:07 PM
Here's the Smallbusines.com page 'singleagator' of small business-related blog headlines. It's running in the context of a wiki running on the open source mediawiki platform so if someone is running a wiki on the same, I'll be happy to show you the hack we're using to do it.
http://www.smallbusiness.com/wiki/Small_business_blogwire
Posted by: Rex | Thursday, August 31, 2006 at 06:25 PM
Singlegators! Brilliant. Now we need a singlegator aggregator. Would those be multigators?
Posted by: Jennifer Fader | Thursday, August 31, 2006 at 06:38 PM
Jennifer, those would be aggravators.
Posted by: Steve Rubel | Thursday, August 31, 2006 at 06:52 PM
Hmm... somehow 'cool' wasn't the word I was thinking of when I came across that ;) . Overall I haven't really enjoyed using them, however, I am starting to feel the need to use one for the Tech category - considering that if you subscribe to Engadget and Gizmodo alone, they practically spam your RSS reader with double posts on everything!
Posted by: ariel | Thursday, August 31, 2006 at 07:04 PM
Instead of singlegators how about alleygators?
Posted by: Colin FitzGerald | Thursday, August 31, 2006 at 07:20 PM
Nice one, Colin! :-)
Posted by: Lee Hopkins | Thursday, August 31, 2006 at 07:43 PM
How about regional river of news aggregators? Are there others like the one here in Tennessee?
http://tinyurl.com/z2gv8
Posted by: Bob Stepno | Thursday, August 31, 2006 at 07:45 PM
Singlegator! Love it! Thanks for the link back, Steve.
Posted by: Brian Benzinger | Thursday, August 31, 2006 at 08:26 PM
At first look, I don't like them. I rather prefer the "river of news" type of aggregators. There are many "planets" out there (one down - hehe) that are interesting.
http://planetplanet.org/
Posted by: Hanan Cohen | Friday, September 01, 2006 at 01:25 AM
Glad you all like the idea of popurls but we should acknowledge Dave with applause for making RSS presentable 8)
Posted by: Thomas Marban | Friday, September 01, 2006 at 04:10 AM